After several combinations had been considered, one boy looked out the window and saw pink blossoms set against the green leaves of a crab apple tree.
Growers now supply pollenizers, by planting crab apples interspersed in the rows, or by grafting crab apple limbs on some trees.
A wild service-tree and crab apple also show a long history, while hawthorn hedges are probably remnants of farm hedgerows.
The spruce trees were replaced by oak, pine, maple, linden, juniper, and flowering crab apple trees.
Much of the field is covered with tufted hair-grass, and it has scattered oak and crab apple trees and a good variety of wild flowers.
The square is landscaped with oak, pine, maple, linden, juniper, and flowering crab apple trees.
Where such communities occur on a rocky shore crab apple often grows with roses and dog violet.
There were plum trees, apple and crab apple trees.
